I was watching a baseball game tonight.  The Twins were losing to the White Sox by the score of 4-0.  It looked as if the Sox's pitcher had the game under control, and that the Twins' offense was going to take the night off.

With that in mind, I started flipping through the channels.  (Ironically, the Twins came through with a 5 run inning at just about the time I stopped watching.  They eventually won 8-4.  Goes to show that it really "ain't over. . ."  (Don't let their current record fool you.  The Twins seem to be surging at the moment.  It looks like they're playing to their potential these days.  This season looks like it will be another one above .500.))

What I ended up watching in lieu of the Twins' game was the movie "Silver Streak" from 1976.  Among the movies that I've seen multiple times, I may have seen "Silver Streak" the most often of all.  ("Caddyshack", "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", and the 007 series are in that group too.)

I really enjoyed watching Silver Streak.  It was funny and interesting.  I worked my self up to tears watching the scene where George (Gene Wilder) was practicing "being black" in the restroom of a Kansas City train station.  That was the definitive scene from the movie.  I really like to have a big laugh during a comedy movie!

During tonight's viewing of the movie, I was noting all of the prominent actors in supporting roles.  We had Richard Kiel (sporting Jaws' metal teeth), Ray Walston, Fred Willard, the guy who played Sheriff Pepper in "Live and Let Die" and "The Man With The Golden Gun", and Ned Beatty (often pronounced "Bay-T", but apparently he likes "Bee-T".  I heard that on a Tom Snyder interview.  To this day, I am still not sure whether he was being serious about how he wanted his name pronounced.)

It has been said that the movie is a bit long.  It isn't funny enough to be a comedy, yet not thrilling enough to be a thriller.  Still I have always enjoyed watching George fall off of the train, and then watching how he was able to get himself back on the doomed transport.  Still Wilder in a parody of romance scenes, and Wilder's interaction with Richard Pryor makes this a can't-miss movie.

So if you see the movie in your TV listings (most recently on FOX movie channel), I recommend it to anyone who hasn't ever seen it, or hasn't seen it for years.